New Plays: The Latent Heterosexual

There are two playwrights inside Paddy Chayefsky  one
is a pixy and the other a preacher. When the pixy handles
the pen, it can turn out a funny, wryly perceptive comedy like
Marty. When the moral preceptor is in
command, the result is likely to be a
chalk-dusty lecture like The Passion of Josef D., with its dreary
analysis of Stalin's rise to power. Chayefsky's latest work, The Latent
Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is
an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing...